Hey, Look Mamka What We Found: a Priceless Rose - I like Media Dragon ... And attributed to Jay Rosen . This cool observation of the greatest mentor in the world means more to this sole survivor (thorn) of the Iron Curtain than all the oil reserves in the world ;-)
The international Bloggie Awards turn five this year, as blogs, or web logs, become more prominent. These amateur web diaries have broken news around the world, most recently from inside occupied Iraq and in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami. But there are fears the form is being corrupted, especially in the wake of revelations that prominent bloggers were involved in a cash for comment scandal Some people have been reading for almost five years and feel like they know me, so they're always offering advice
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Blogs Break out & Hit the Big Time
Blogs used to be a minority interest, but technology expert Charles Arthur finds their appeal has grown massively. Cream of the crop
The next generation of search engines are all about getting us what we want, faster. Adam Turner reports on the entrenched players and the new entrants who are fighting to gain traction.
• Finders' keepers [It’s 40 years since Winston Churchill died; he being the man who had mastered the art of the soundbite before the phrase was even coined. The Iron Curtain? His phrase. “Yes, I am drunk, but you are ugly and in the morning I shall be sober.” Him again. I'll call you on the Google; A lie is halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its boots on Sins of Omission ]
• · All that I can hope to make you understand / Is only events: not what has happened. / And people to whom nothing has ever happened / Cannot understand the unimportance of events. T.S. Eliot: This culture of 'closing ranks' coupled with hostile comments about the media from senior politicians and others, has led some in the media community (not necessarily Eason or myself) to believe the military are careless as to whether journalists are killed or not Collateral damage ; Most e-mailed NYT article is 2 months old; Using BlogMap you can geo-code your blog Blog Map Project
• · · Joi Ito Good News All Around: Wikinews meets the bloggers ; Coping when everything is digital: Digital documents and issues in document retention
• · · · Dual loyalties: When love and work collide ; A Melbourne principal filmed a teacher, then used the footage to back his claim she was incompetent, before sacking her Spy-cam used in classroom
• · · · · Maybe it's time for media criticism to take off the training wheels
• · · · · · To reporters and writers, the term's an insult, a barb aimed at mercenary keyboards-for-hire, those burnt-out cases lacking in talent and scruples Writing Hacks ; RUSSIAN CROSSROADS: Toward the New Millennium ; Last week, in a fascinating coup for Cold War buffs, historic documents from the institute were handed over to the Russian State Archive Out of Sight: A CIA puppet or a serious research facility? The jury is still out on the Munich Institute